Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane Bob Dylan writes about a true story in “Hurricane.” This is the story of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. He was a middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of three murders. He spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Three people were shot in a barroom. Carter and a young boy were driving around on the other side of town. The cops pulled him over just because he was black. As Dylan states in his song, “If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street, ‘less you wanna draw the heat.” Carter was arrested for the murder even thoug